After the Korean War

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지금의 세계는 한국전쟁이 만든 세계다
관계의 관점에서 복원한 한국전쟁의 체험된 역사

2020년 올해는 한국전쟁이 일어난 지 70년이 되는 해이다. 어린 시절 혹은 청소년기에 전쟁을 직접 경험한 세대가 간직한 살아 있는 전쟁의 기억이 그 생을 다할 때가 된 것이다. 이 시점을 전쟁문화사 연구자들은 중요한 전환점으로 이해한다. 전쟁의 경험자들이 더이상 존재하지 않을 때 그 전쟁을 누가, 어떻게 기억할 것인가. 한국전쟁과 베트남전쟁 등 냉전 연구로 세계 인류학계에서 독보적 위치에 오른 권헌익(영국 케임브리지대 석좌교수)은 『전쟁과 가족』을 통해 한국전쟁 당시 양민들이 처했던 현실과 폭력이 작동한 방식을 가족과 친족의 관계적 관점에서 살펴본다.

한국의 전통적 공동체에서 인간적 친근함이라는 환경이 어떻게 한국전쟁이라는 정치의 주요 표적이 되었는지, 그리고 이후 긴 냉전시기 동안 어떻게 국가적 규율 행위의 핵심이 되어왔는지를 드러낸다. 안동, 제주 등의 현지조사를 통한 인류학적 분석은 문학, 사회학, 정치학, 역사학과 만나 전지구적 분쟁의 최전선에서 벌어진 냉전적 근대성의 본질을 묻는다. 또한 한국전쟁은 지금의 세계를 만든 전쟁이기도 하다. 전지구적 냉전체제를 형성한 초기 주요 사건이면서 최근 새롭게 부상한 소위 중국과 미국의 신냉전 구도의 뿌리도 한국전쟁에 있다. 20세기의 대표적 내전이자 가장 폭력적인 내전인 한국전쟁이 세계사의 넓은 지평에서 차지하는 자리를 이해하는 데 이 책이 새로운 지평을 열어줄 것이다.



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Description

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory.

Provides a fresh perspective of the Korean War and Korea's Cold War experience from the ground up

Introduces the concept of kinship into an analysis of modern history and politics to help understand the human experience of the Cold War and its aftermath

Draws upon newly available historical and testimonial evidence, as well as a sensitive, long-term participant observation

Reviews & endorsements

'This extraordinary book gives us - finally - the language to touch the heart of the Korean War's fundamental, enduring violence. With kinship in focus as the essential terrain of the political, Kwon completely transforms how we understand mass violence at the intersection between the intimate, the state, and the global. After the Korean War is a work of exquisite and stunning brilliance.' Monica Kim, New York University

'Grounded in deep historical research and intimate ethnography, After the Korean War offers a timely reflection on little understood aspects of the global cold war through the enduring consequences of the Korean War. A must read in the current climate of renewed Sino-American power plays and their collateral impact in the region and beyond.' Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University, North Carolina

'After the Korean War puts to rest talk about how the Cold War is over and behind us. As Heonik Kwon powerfully shows in tracing the global civil war in Korea, it is the way the intimate violence of war as experienced by families has been remembered - or not remembered - that continues to entrap us. Only by respecting 'the rights of the dead to be remembered', as he eloquently argues, can we truly move beyond the legacies of the Cold War to establish the friendships and solidarities needed today.' Andre Schmid, University of Toronto

'Heonik Kwon's intimate history of the Korean War and its myriad aftermaths offers one of the most humane accounts to date of what, in a previous study, he called 'The Other Cold War'.' Todd Henry, European Journal of Korean Studies

'… After the Korean War stands as one of the most innovative treatments of the Korean War to appear in recent years … It is Kwon's capacity to look at the Korean War in a way that also sheds light on some of the other horrors of the modern era that makes his work such a compelling and valuable contribution.' Gregg A. Brazinsky, Acta Koreana



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Description

À la suite de ses études primées sur la guerre du Vietnam, Heonik Kwon, anthropologue renommé, présente cette étude révolutionnaire des héritages durables de la guerre de Corée vus dans le domaine de l'expérience humaine intime. Kwon reprend hardiment les liens de parenté comme une catégorie essentielle dans les enquêtes historiques et politiques et explore plus largement la zone grise entre le moderne et le traditionnel (et entre le civil et le social) dans la réalité vivante de la guerre civile et de la guerre froide. Avec des détails historiques captivants et des cadres conceptuels novateurs, l'analyse créative et émouvante de Kwon fournit de nouvelles idées sur le conflit coréen, la guerre civile et la réconciliation, l'histoire et la mémoire et la théorie politique critique.

Donne une nouvelle perspective de la guerre de Corée et de l'expérience de la guerre froide de Corée depuis le début

Introduit le concept de parenté dans une analyse de l'histoire et de la politique modernes pour aider à comprendre l'expérience humaine de la guerre froide et ses conséquences

S'appuie sur des preuves historiques et des témoignages récemment disponibles, ainsi que sur une observation sensible et à long terme des participants

Examens et approbations

Ce livre extraordinaire nous donne - enfin - le langage pour toucher le cœur de la violence fondamentale et durable de la guerre de Corée. La parenté étant le terrain essentiel de la politique, Kwon transforme complètement notre compréhension de la violence de masse à l'intersection entre l'intime, l'État et le monde. Après la guerre de Corée est une œuvre d'une brillance exquise et étonnante.» Monica Kim, Université de New York

Fondée dans des recherches historiques approfondies et une ethnographie intime, After the Korean War offre une réflexion opportune sur les aspects peu compris de la guerre froide mondiale à travers les conséquences durables de la guerre de Corée. A doit se lire dans le climat actuel des jeux de pouvoir sino-américains renouvelés et de leur impact collatéral dans la région et au-delà.» Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Université Duke, Caroline du Nord

"Après la guerre de Corée, parlez de la fin de la guerre froide. Comme Heonik Kwon l'a montré avec force en retraçant la guerre civile mondiale en Corée, c'est la façon dont la violence intime de la guerre telle qu'elle a été vécue par les familles - ou non - qui continue de nous piéger.